{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Resigning, therefore, these baubles to the wicked master of cunning\r\nhimself, let us not take part in this meretricious adornment, nor\r\ncommit idolatry through a specious pretext. Most admirably, therefore,\r\nthe blessed Peter<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_622\" id=\"FNanchor_622\">[622]</a> says, “In like manner also, that women adorn\r\nthemselves not with braids, or gold, or costly array, but (which\r\nbecometh women professing godliness) with good works.” For it is with\r\nreason that he bids decking of themselves to be kept far from them.\r\nFor, granting that they are beautiful, nature suffices. Let not art\r\ncontend against nature; that is, let not falsehood strive with truth.\r\nAnd if they are by nature ugly, they are convicted, by the things they\r\napply to themselves, of what they do not possess [<i>i.e.</i> of the\r\nwant of beauty]. It is suitable, therefore, for women who serve Christ\r\nto adopt simplicity. For in reality simplicity provides for sanctity,\r\nby reducing redundancies to equality, and by furnishing from whatever\r\nis at hand the enjoyment sought from superfluities. For simplicity,\r\nas the name shows, is not conspicuous, is not inflated<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_272\">[272]</span> or puffed up\r\nin aught, but is altogether even, and gentle, and equal, and free of\r\nexcess, and so is sufficient. And sufficiency is a condition which\r\nreaches its proper end without excess or defect. The mother of these\r\nis Justice, and their nurse “Independence;” and this is a condition\r\nwhich is satisfied with what is necessary, and by itself furnishes what\r\ncontributes to the blessed life.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XIII. AGAINST EXCESSIVE FONDNESS FOR JEWELS AND GOLD ORNAMENTS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_622","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-475"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b87e97b50f1ffa59beac0b481ce6a013b485dd4ecb50c3bbef2d28cbf53e2710","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. ii. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_622","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_622","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_622\" id=\"Footnote_622\">[622]</a> By mistake for Paul. Clement quotes here, as often, from\r\nmemory (1 Tim. ii. 9, 10).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_622","text_sha256":"8a6559ea71eca1990f819f14712f4f27805c65db7a0130eea1627383afeac9fe","verified":false,"work_id":null}